MahaSati Training Years 3 & 4 (2026 – 2027)

This training is only for those who have completed Year 1 – 2 MahaSati Training.
Years 3 – 4 curriculum have powerful potential for ‘quantum shifts in Wise View’ and are well worth revisiting repeatedly in depth over time. Even the MahaSati curriculum ‘is not linear’!
For Years 3 – 4, it is entirely possible that some members from MahaSati 2022 and MahaSati Group 1 (CSP) will be joining our cohort, bringing their experience with them, which would provide a rich experience for all. However, weeklong retreat group sizes will remain ‘small’.

Year 3 Curriculum

  • The Relationship between MahaSati and Energy
  • The Relationship between MahaSati and the Divine Abode Practices
  • The Relationship between MahaSati and Devotion/Ardency
  • MahaSati Subtle Near Misses
  • MahaSati transforming Strong Emotions
  • Qualities of Space and Spaciousness in MahaSati Practice
  • Ajahn Chah Teaching on MahaSati and Locationlessness
  • Continued integration of all MahaSati themes in daily life

Year 4 Curriculum

  • MahaSati Practice with the Mind In Stillness and the Mind in Movement
  • Ajahn Chah MahaSati Practice Taking the One Seat
  • Sutta Teachings on Emptiness from a MahaSati perspective
  • MahaSati and working with Deeper Defilement Roots
  • MahaSati illuminating the essence of Thoughts and Emotions
  • MahaSati With and Without Doorways
  • MahaSati and the Two Truths
  • Continued Familiarize and Stabilize of all MahaSati themes in daily life

Years 3 – 4 Training Will Include

1.  Eight Self-Paced Modules for Year 3 and Eight Self-Paced Modules for Year 4 (16 total) including:

  • At Home Study & Practice Materials
  • Password Protected Recordings of the teachings and guided meditations for participants only

2.  Four Optional Attendance Whole Groups Gatherings on Zoom during the Two-Year Training

Year 3, 2026:  Two Optional Attendance Whole Group Gatherings on Zoom and recorded:

  • Intro to Years 3 – 4, plus Introductions to MahaSati Energy Practices and Divine Abodes Practices from a MahaSati Perspective
  • MahaSati Subtle Near Misses deep dive

Year 4, 2027:  Two Optional Attendance Whole Group Gatherings on Zoom and recorded:

  • Introduction to MahaSati with Mind in Stillness & In Movement, plus Taking The One Seat Teaching/Practice
  • Conclusion to Year 4, plus deeper dive into MahaSati Stillness & Movement and Two Truths teachings

3.  A Commitment to Ten Individual Sessions with Heather per year to support and deepen meditation and daily life MahaSati practice.  

4.  One Mandatory Online MahaSati Residential Retreat per year, to deepen Mahasati practice.

  • As usual you can sit this retreat from home or with one or more other folks from our Training in rented accommodations in different geographical areas.
  • Please Note: For MahaSati 2022 Training and CSP (Group 1) for 2026: We will hold a separate Online MahaSati Retreat which will ‘deep dive’ into MahaSati Mind in Movement themes as well as Year 5 curriculum themes, so that these two groups joining Years 3 – 4 MahaSati Training have retreat teachings and practices ‘more attuned’ to their level of training. For MahaSati 2022, as part of your ‘revisiting Year 3 – 4 package’ you will also be provided with a free second set of new retreat recordings you can use in retreat or in daily practice.

5.  NEW One Optional Attendance Annual Online ‘Deep Dive’ Weekend Retreat per year on MahaSati Subtle Near Misses (Fall Year 3) and MahaSati Mind in Movement (Year 4) teachings and practices.

  • Registration for these weekends will be separate from the Training donation. You can also choose to ‘audit retreat recordings’ instead of attend live. Please note: Those in MahaSati 2022 and CSP Group will be provided with recordings for free as part of their ‘revisting Year 3 – 4 package’.

6.  NEW One Optional Additional Online ‘Deep Dive’ Long Weekend Retreat in 2026 on ‘The MahaSati Perspective on Transcendent Dependent Origination’.

  • This is the first time Heather will teach on this topic to any of the MahaSati Training groups, and all more experienced training groups will be invited to attend.
  • Registration for these weekends will be separate from the Training donation. You can also choose to ‘audit retreat recordings’ instead of attend live. Please note: Those in MahaSati 2022 and CSP Group will be provided with recordings for free as part of their ‘revisiting Year 3 – 4 package’.

7. Monthly Small Group to discuss practice, study and continue community support.  
–  If you would like to try to be placed into a new small group, or you would prefer to only have one person as a Dharma Buddy for Years 3 and 4, please let Heather know that.

Other types of totally optional ‘emergent’ opportunities for those in the MahaSati Trainings

  • Basically, when people in the MahaSati Trainings have ideas about what supports their practice needs, it sometimes leads to new forms of events and community support.  The training is alive and unfolding around the main container parts of the training, listed above.
  • For example, two of the four current MahaSati Trainings have optional weekday silent peer zoom meditations, which people enjoy.
  • One of the current Mahasati Trainings has an additional optional peer led monthly study small group on the main text of the year.
  • One of the current MahaSati Trainings has an extra peer led small group after each MahaSati online event, to be able to discuss what was taught and practiced.
  • In November 2024 a group of 6 people from multiple MahaSati Trainings participanted in a highly successful jhana and MahaSati self-retreat, supported by regular interviews with Heather, a couple of live online teachings, a daily silent peer sit online, and personalized recording selections for each person’s retreat.  We plan to do this again in November 2025.
  • Heather supports numerous personalized MahaSati self-retreats with individuals from different MahaSati Trainings, whether it’s extending the time of the annual 7 night online MahaSati retreat, or finding other dates/time periods.  Heather works with each person to design the components of each retreat, and then offers individual support of various forms during the retreat.
  • A NEW Idea: If MahaSati 2024, MahaSati 2022, and MahaSati Group 1 (CSP) all come together, we will then have the conditions for occasional 60 – 90 minute Live Events (as a part of the training, no donation requested), including guided MahaSati meditation, short teachings, and opportunities for either Q&A or break out group with folks who are not in your current small groups, for more ‘cross-fertilization’ dialog.

Lastly a ‘promise’ to those who attend Years 3 – 4 in 2026 – 2027, which I may come to regret, but I am going to make anyway……I have long long felt the calling to create the “MahaSati Manual” for the teachings and practices of Years 2, 3, and 4. Conditions willing, I am promising you the next widely expanded iteration of the MahaSati Manual by the close of 2027 Year 4. Let’s see if I can actually pull it off with limited time/energy conditions. I also promise to ask you for your totally optional support for the financial resources I may need to carve out the time to do this project. 🙂

Financial Support Commitments for the Teacher & the Training **
Participants are asked to offer as high on the sliding scales as they can comfortably afford.  

1.  The Two-Year Advanced Training will be offered on a Donation Sliding Scale between $1400 – $2500.  This includes the 4 Zoom Events, all 16 Modules of Recordings, At Home Study and Practice materials, plus Administration support for the ongoing Training.

  •  Deposit (nonrefundable) of $500 due between May 5 – 15, 2025; along with a commitment to offer the Remainder Donation whether you attend Years 3 – 4 or not. Heather is saving you a spot and depending on your support!
    Remainder Donation Due between January 15 – 30, 2026
  •  Monthly donations available upon request for those on fixed income.

Committing Level:  An offering of $1400 is a basic support offering for Heather for the two-year advanced training.
Sustaining Level:  An offering of $1900 or Above is an supportive offering which allows Heather increased sustainability to continue and deepen the MahaSati teachings and offerings – Thank you!
Benefactor Level:  ** An offering of above $2400 will directly support Heather to offer Scholarships to be offered to other participants who need financial support – Thank you!
Benefactee Level:  ** Please ask if you need financial support and Heather can tell you how much Scholarship money is available from gifts from the rest of the MahaSati Training community.

2.  The Commitment to Ten Annual Individual Sessions per year with Heather are also offered on a Sliding Scale Teacher Support Model.   Updated Sliding Scale as of 2026 thank you for your ongoing support.
** 55 minute sessions:  $120 – $185;      30 minute sessions:  $70 – $115
     For those in financial need, we can set up a Benefactor/Benefactee anonymous system to have another person in the training offer more financial support to help support your sessions with Heather.

3.  The 2026 and 2027 Annual MahaSati Online Retreats are signed up for and paid for separately.
Approximate Donation: $600 – $1000 per annual retreat to support all registration, managing, hosting, recordings work, teaching preparation and teaching of the retreat.

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